Apple's $20.4 billion in September quarter buybacks take the prize
For the 12 months ended in September, Apple spent $96.7 billion. It also paid out $468 billion over the past five years and $755 billion in the 10-year period.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt has been covering Apple since 1983 — mostly for Time Magazine (28 years), later for Fortune (9 years), where he wrote a daily blog called Apple 2.0. [Read more.]